Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Never lose sight of the impact you are having on young people’s lives.
2. Teach your players the importance of priorities that allow for maximum personal, academic, and athletic development.
3. Evaluate wins and losses objectively, focusing more on effort and execution than on the outcome of the game.
5. Never humiliate.
6. Communicate your approach in a style that is comfortable to you and fits your personality and philosophy.
10. If you make a mistake and fall down, you must get back up.
12. You are constantly being judged on what you are doing and not what you have done.
13. Be yourself.
15. Don’t play players only because they have potential if they do not hustle, work hard, and listen.
21. I believe that repetition of fundamentals at any level will make your players winners.
22. Play hard, play smart, play together, and have fun.
24. I will never curse my players, and they will never curse me.
25. I will never embarrass my players, and they will never embarrass me.
30. Never write a plan for practice that takes longer than two hours.
31. Make your players sprint over to you to begin practice on a hustling, enthusiastic note.
32. Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, it’s really hard.
33. Take time to talk individually with the players you are cutting.
34. Have your players write down their academic and athletic goals at the start of every year.
35. Building team chemistry is the most important thing you can do as a coach.